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From: Yao-Nan Lien <lien>



Superiority is not sufficient to have people to choose a
particular typesetting tool or to switch from one to another.

I am tire of hearing that 

"TeX is better, so you should switch to Tex "

Who is going to rewrite my thousands of Shell scripts and papers
written in past 5 years? Those Shell scripts are a mix of 
troff, ex, sed, awk, ....etc. I don't even know can TeX support such an
environment or not.  What I mean support is the capability of mixing 
with other UNIX tools to have a NEW tool quickly by a noraml user.

Could we list out the criteria to evaluate a typesetting tool 
from the users' point of view ( NOT SYSTEM PEOPLE's !) first.
Then, give adequate weight to each item we listed for different
types of users. THEN, evaluate these  tools against these
criteria.

PS.
There is an article in ACM computing survey ( 3 or 4 year back)
doing an interesting  evaluation.

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Yao-Nan Lien
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Ohio State University
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